Li Jinzhi opened his eyes abruptly, only to see a pool of pitch-black ice water. He moved his limbs but did not feel any pain. Suspicions arose in his heart. The pain he felt in the Space of Consciousness was still fresh in his mind. Why did he feel so comfortable now?

Li Jinzhi clenched his fingers but did not feel any soreness. His broken bones seemed to have healed as well. Li Jinzhi paused and clenched his fingers again. They were empty. The fingers that were intertwined with his before he fainted had disappeared. All that was left was empty water.

Li Jinzhi turned his head abruptly and looked to his side. All he saw was pitch-black darkness. Where did Ye Cheng go?

Did he get washed away by the current?

Or was he taken away by the Old Demon to be refined into pills?

No, it couldn't be. When he fainted, the old devil didn't go into the water. In fact, he couldn't even go down. The Undercurrent of Ice was notorious for its ferocity. The demonic cultivator must have predicted that the two of them would die if they fell down, which was why he threw them down.

However, he did not expect that Ye Cheng and he both had Ice Attribute Celestial Spiritual Roots. The colder it was, the more advantageous it was for them. Furthermore, Ye Cheng had Extreme Yang Spiritual Roots.

Extreme Yang Spiritual Roots?!

The last sentence of the Ice Phoenix Formula appeared in his mind. It required him to devour the Ice Dragon's Yao Core to inherit the Extreme Yang Spiritual Roots.

Ye Cheng happened to have Extreme Yang Spiritual Roots. How could it be so coincidental?

In fact, Li Jinzhi did not want to suspect him. However, if he thought about it carefully, he could find many clues.

First, Ye Cheng and the Master of the House of Ye had very similar eyebrows.

Second, an Ice Dragon that was close to Ye Cheng appeared at the place where he disappeared. Where did the Ice Dragon bloodline come from?

Third, when Ye Cheng disappeared, the Li Family Fort was massacred. The attribute of Ye Cheng's Spiritual Roots was very similar to the Ice Dragon's Extreme Yang Spiritual Roots.

Ice Dragon?

That Little Dragon that did not exist since he came out of seclusion might be the biggest clue!

Li Jinzhi's eyes suddenly widened. He fumbled around in his sleeves and pulled out a slender Little Dragon. He was stunned before he even started his interrogation.

The Little Dragon's eyes were closed, and it was lying on his hand, dying. It seemed to feel that someone was moving it, and it raised its eyelids slightly, revealing a pair of extremely dim mung bean eyes. When it saw that it was Li Jinzhi, it closed its eyes again, and its little head gently rubbed against his fingers.

Li Jinzhi felt as if there was a fishbone stuck in his throat. He looked at the scales that had fallen off the Little Dragon's back. The tender skin and flesh that had bloomed were glowing with a pale color. There was no more blood flowing out. Only the white bones could be faintly seen. It was not difficult to see that these wounds were caused by sharp teeth.

The scene of Ye Cheng falling to the ground and being bitten by the ghost head was still vivid in his mind. If Ye Cheng hadn't pushed him away, he would have been the one bitten to the point where his flesh was lacerated and his bones were exposed.

A sour feeling welled up in his nose. All his guesses, suspicions, and deductions were thrown away when he saw the wounds on the Little Dragon's body.

He shouldn't have doubted Ye Cheng beside him. Even if he was the villain Ye Cheng, the other party had never harmed him so far.

So what if he was the villain?

Who said that the protagonist and the villain had to fight to the death?

If the villain treated you sincerely, how could he still be called a villain?

Would the real villain save you with his life?

Would the real villain not abandon you in times of danger?

As for the destruction of the Li family?

Sorry, those people, even Li Jinzhi himself wanted to kill them.

He was not an actor, but a living person. Even if he had transmigrated to become the protagonist, there was no need to act according to the plot of the script. The trajectory of his life should be determined by himself, and not by the author standing in the perspective of God and deciding his life with a few words!

Moreover, Ye Cheng didn't know the plot, nor did he know that he was the villain. He only treated him with the most sincere heart. Even if the other party might know that he needed to devour the Ice Phoenix bloodline to evolve, he didn't do anything to him.

As for whether he would do anything in the future?

Then he would wait until the future to decide. There was no need to torment the present for the future. Besides, he believed in Ye Cheng.

Moreover, if Ye Cheng was really the villain Ye Cheng who had awakened his bloodline, then the Little Dragon that he picked up at the place where Ye Cheng went missing was very likely to be Ye Cheng himself!

Looking at the wound on the Little Dragon's back, Li Jinzhi resisted the sour feeling in his nose and put his finger close to the Little Dragon. "Drink."

The Little Dragon opened its mouth weakly. Its two fangs lifted weakly and then slid away. It didn't bite through.

Li Jinzhi's heart softened. He bit his finger and handed it over. The Little Dragon moved its nose a few times, then opened its mouth wide and sucked in the wound on his finger. A fine and dense numbness followed. Li Jinzhi noticed that his blood seemed to be particularly useful. The wound on the Little Dragon's back slowly healed. Its skin and flesh regenerated, and its tendons and bones connected. In the end, it formed a light pink skin and flesh, but it was very different from the surrounding ice white skin. The large scales that had fallen off did not regenerate.

It was bald just like that.

After the Little Dragon drank its fill, it released its finger and fell asleep again. Li Jinzhi carefully kicked it into the sleeve of his robe and put it away.

He was now almost certain that this flood dragon was Ye Cheng. Although he couldn't quite understand how the tall and long-legged Ye Cheng turned into a mini chopstick, Li Jinzhi was certain that it might have encountered some unspeakable opportunity. Thinking of the blood cocoon when he first saw it, Li Jinzhi was certain of his thoughts.

In this way, the Little Dragon's familiarity with the jade pendant and aura could be explained.

Thinking of how the Little Dragon addressed him at that time, Li Jinzhi pursed his lips and made a judgment. The Little Dragon didn't have memories of when it was Ye Cheng.

Li Jinzhi breathed a sigh of relief. He suddenly noticed a protrusion on his chest. He touched it and found that it was a storage bag. It was Ye Cheng's storage bag.

He used his divine sense to explore inside and found that the Bone Growing Grass had disappeared. There was only a large pile of Spirit-Eating Fish, some items that belonged to him, and some items that belonged to Ye Cheng.

His chest was full. It was obvious who ate the Bone Growing Grass. No matter what happened to Ye Cheng, in the end, he left the storage bag to him. He didn't even have time to take out his own things.

Although Li Jinzhi knew that it was wrong to pry into other people's private belongings, he still couldn't help but use his divine sense to sweep Ye Cheng's pile of things.

Then, he found a cultivation technique called the Dragonization Art and a jade pendant with the word 'Domain' engraved on it.

Well, the truth was out.

It was easy to figure out how these two things came about. Ye Cheng went back to find the Ye family's master. After returning to the family, he received a book of the family's cultivation method and an identity jade pendant.

That's right, the Little Dragon didn't seem to have left his cave after he picked it up.

Li Jinzhi was widely read. Although this kind of magic was rare, it wasn't that it didn't exist. When he came out of seclusion, wasn't the Little Dragon still in a daze and refused to say a word?

The Little Dragon he picked up was obviously very agile. In addition, the Little Dragon had been staying in his sleeve. How could it be bitten?

However, Li Jinzhi still had doubts in his heart. If Ye Cheng was the villain, why did he, who could slaughter an entire family, seem to have no resistance in front of Moksha?

Why was he so easily hurt by Moksha's sneak attack?

Why did he give him the storage bag with the identity information without warning? Did he forget or did he do it on purpose?

Li Jinzhi frowned. After a long while, the corners of his lips curled up. Perhaps the other party didn't want him to find out in the future and create a gap.

That's why he sent the evidence to him in such a subtle way.

And that Moksha was at the peak of the late stage of the Golden Elixir realm. Ye Cheng was caught by him once before, so it was normal that he couldn't defeat him.

Thinking that he had guessed the correct answer, Li Jinzhi rubbed the Little Dragon's scales with his index finger. After calming down, he began to study the location. He stuck out his tongue and tasted the water. It was salty.

So he had been washed into the sea?

Where exactly was he now?

Looking around, it was pitch-black. There was only dead silence around him. He couldn't see the bottom or the top. His eardrums were squeezed by the water pressure, and Li Jinzhi could only hear his own heartbeat.

Thump, thump.

After realizing his situation, no matter how strong his psychological endurance was, he still felt his scalp tingle. His chest felt stuffy, and his limbs were stiff. After living for so long, he discovered that he had deep-sea phobia for the first time.

Li Jinzhi, whose whole body was stiff, swallowed his saliva. He couldn't help but imagine the movie plot of a prehistoric shark that was extremely deep and cold. Then, he realized that his whole body was unwell.

He had encountered such a large group of Spirit-Eating Fish before, so it was impossible that there were no living creatures in this water area.

However, he had sunk into the water for so long, yet he hadn't choked to death?

He mobilized the spiritual energy in his body. He didn't know if it was the effect of the Bone Growing Grass, but his originally dry dantian was now full of spiritual energy. He hadn't drowned to death after being in the water for so long because of the spiritual energy in his body, and it had abandoned the restraint of the air on him.

Li Jinzhi's whole body was stiff as he stopped in place to do mental work for himself. However, his ears heard some other movement, other than the sound of his heartbeat.

Splash.

Although it was extremely soft, it was indeed the sound of water moving.

Splash, splash.

It's coming again!

Li Jinzhi suddenly looked to his left. Other than darkness, there was only darkness. However, the sound was indeed there, and its frequency was getting faster and faster!

Moreover, small fish and shrimps wouldn't be able to make such a big wave!

Holy shit!!

The movie plot that Li Jinzhi had just imagined suddenly popped up again. In the bone-chilling water, his forehead was covered in cold sweat. He didn't have time to care about his deep-sea phobia. Li Jinzhi used his Kung Fu and rushed in the opposite direction of the sound.

His speed was unprecedentedly fast.

There was no sense of direction in the pitch-black water. He just walked based on his feelings. The splashing sound behind him was getting louder and louder, and the frequency was getting faster and faster. Li Jinzhi didn't need to look back to estimate the size of this thing!

Big!

It was an extremely large underwater creature. Moreover, it used two wings to paddle. Listening to the vibration of the sliding sound, one could tell that the two wings were very big and soft.

Li Jinzhi calmed down from the fright just now and quickly recalled whether there was any underwater creature that matched the description in the Dan Dao.

An animal that made the soles of his feet move like the wind appeared in his mind. In a moment, Li Jinzhi's speed doubled again.

The Tiger-Skinned Sea Rabbit was one of the ferocious beasts in the sea. Although its name had the word 'rabbit', it sounded very docile and well-behaved. In fact, it was not.

Its mouth was long and sharp, and it had a huge poisonous sac on the top of its head. Its two fat ears were used for paddling. The tiger stripes were its skin, and its body was comparable to a giant whale at the bottom of the sea. It belonged to the category of ferocious beasts in the sea. Its demon core was extremely cold and yin, and its skin was very hard. Its buttocks were the door of death. However, very few people who saw this ferocious beast survived.

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After recalling the original description in the Dan Dao, Li Jinzhi had already escaped for nearly a hundred meters. The sound of water paddling behind him was getting closer and closer.

No, if he chased after the beast like this, not only would he not be able to shake it off, but he would also be caught by it because of the depletion of spiritual energy.